Top 3 of nation's 4 richest counties are in NoVa

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Anonymous wrote:The richest region in the entire area is inside route 28 and I270 and river road and north of the Poromac from poolesville to DuPont .

All the most expensive real estate , billionaires , best country clubs , best publics and privates are in this traditional DC region.

What "region" is this exactly, and who has defined or measured it as such? Aging country clubs do not define wealth or high HHIs in 2016, snookums. And the best public school in the DC region is TJ, hands down.

It's the rich and influential region of northwest DC and Montgomery County that billionaires choose because it's the most cultured and attractive.

Tj is a magnet school.

Sorry , but Whitman , Churchill , Holton , Sidwell , Stone Ridge , Visitation , National Cathedral , Landon , Georgetown Prep , Saint Albans , Georgetown Day

Congressional , Burning Tree , Chevy Chase , Columbia .

All the best stuff.

All the billionaires.

But then you're stuck with UMD as your state school. Yuck.

UMD is an excellent school but if you're wealthy why would you choose UMD instead of Ivy League?

That's a great question. Maybe the UMD booster can take a break from MD boostering and chime in....

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Anonymous wrote:Number 1 in the US in income, education level of residents and highschool rankings.

What more could Md do?

Hmm . Smartest and richest

Maybe give more to charity !

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U.M.D has done its job with alumni inventing / creating 1/4 of the US economy and culture.

Without the muppets, octane system, linear programming , Google , oculus rift , the Wire, Seinfeld , Sirius Satellite Radio, the Universal Price Code , implantable Defibrulators , coronary stents, miniturized insulin pumps and hundreds of other medical device patents, large screen stadium televisions , Underarmour , bay watch , Outback Steakhouse , the Hybrid Engine , Pulse Dopplar Radar, Boondocks , Liberty meadows , diary of a wimpy kid

The US would not be the same.

Nobody would notice if all UVA alumni evaporated.

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-bureau-4-richest-counties-us-are-suburbs-dc

"Six of the Top 20 richest counties are in Northern Virginia. That gives Virginia twice as many counties in the Top 20 as any other state."

Richest counties in the U.S.:

1. Loudoun County, VA
2. Falls Church City, VA (independent cities are treated as counties)
3. Fairfax County, VA
4. Howard County, MD

The real shocker is that Montgomery County, MD has crashed all the way to 19.

Actually, isn't falls church city very small?

Richest or biggest counties? They are all very large counties, with their share of top % tax payers. Lumped together. If you were to split up the tax payers and % by town - the results would be very different.

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U.M.D alum broke watergate too.
Plus more national championships, Nobels, Fields Medals, Academy Award , Emmy Award and Pulitzers than all the schools in Viginia put together.

Other than that it sucks.

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Anonymous wrote:U.M.D alum broke watergate too.
Plus more national championships, Nobels, Fields Medals, Academy Award , Emmy Award and Pulitzers than all the schools in Viginia put together.

Other than that it sucks.

You aren't going to list them all out again?

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Falls church? You've got to be kidding. It's a total eyesore and a crossroads of hardscrabble. I wonder why there is no Burning Tree or Congressional there?

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FCC is very small and has decent schools so it attracts high earners looking for a good commute that aren't interested in the prestige of McLean or Bethesda. It's a decent part of the DMV and it certainly has high earners living there. Have you looked at what you can buy there for under a mill? Not much. Taxes are through the roof which deters a lot of would be buyers.

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Anonymous wrote:Falls church? You've got to be kidding. It's a total eyesore and a crossroads of hardscrabble. I wonder why there is no Burning Tree or Congressional there?

Falls Church City doesn't even have space within its boundaries for its public schools, much less a country club. On a stand-alone basis, however, it has a very high median HHI.

The real issue, though, is why incomes in the large suburban MD counties are increasing so much slower than in DC or the large VA suburban counties. I'd be Oscar the Grouch too if DC and VA were stealing all my cookies.

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Md and DC have the highest median incomes in the US. Then again they are essentially the same thing. DC is embedded in and donated by Md. They are tied together with Massachusetts , Wisconsin , Connecticut , Georgia , New Hampshire , Rhode Island and Pennsylvania avenues. West of the park and east of the park follow suit from DC out into MD with neighborhood character. Va is not really a part of anything. Everything is on the MD side of the river and Md even owns the Potomac.

All the Museums , Redskins, Ravens, Nats, Orioles , NBA, NHL, Big Ten Football, Monuments, clubs , Kennedy center, 4/5 of all metro stops, best private schools, best country clubs ,best restaurants. All across the river located or embedded in Md. Annapolis vs Richmond ? Md is number 1 in the United States in median and per capita income, percent of college educated residents and number 1 in overall highschool rankings .

The Calvert cross rules.

Va is outside all of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Md and DC have the highest median incomes in the US. Then again they are essentially the same thing. DC is embedded in and donated by Md. They are tied together with Massachusetts , Wisconsin , Connecticut , Georgia , New Hampshire , Rhode Island and Pennsylvania avenues. West of the park and east of the park follow suit from DC out into MD with neighborhood character. Va is not really a part of anything. Everything is on the MD side of the river and Md even owns the Potomac.

All the Museums , Redskins, Ravens, Nats, Orioles , NBA, NHL, Big Ten Football, Monuments, clubs , Kennedy center, 4/5 of all metro stops, best private schools, best country clubs ,best restaurants. All across the river located or embedded in Md. Annapolis vs Richmond ? Md is number 1 in the United States in median and per capita income, percent of college educated residents and number 1 in overall highschool rankings .

The Calvert cross rules.

Va is outside all of it.

Blah blah blah. Why are you hijacking a thread about wealthy counties to talk about states?

Don't bother answering.

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Falls church is a county?

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If the MD booster is a common personality in MD, I'm not surprised MD is losing a lot of wealth. What kind of moron cites the Muppets and Outback Steakhouse as "cultural contributions"? LMAO!

Anyway, the real story here is that VA is absolutely crushing MD in wealth and income and the disparity is growing as even the very best parts of MD fall. I guess this upsets some people.

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Top occupation in DC is lawyer. In VA it's software developer. In MD it's secretary.

So it's not really surprising MD incomes are comparatively stagnant.

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Anonymous wrote:Number 1 in the US in income, education level of residents and highschool rankings.

What more could Md do?

Maryland is washed up and totally eclipsed by Virginia.